Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now housing organisations have got together to make a private tenant 's manifesto to push forward the rights of tenants to be protected . |
| 2 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most important single decision taken by the District during the twenties was to accept the Carnegie Trust 's offer to support financially the appointment of a tutor for the development of rural adult education . |
| 4 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 5 | Writing for children in other schools might be a useful way of developing the ability to do this , and certainly many schools have found this " experience-exchange " a very valuable means of increasing children 's motivation to improve both the content and the presentation of their writing . |
| 6 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 7 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 8 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 9 | This year we have added a special Olympian category in addition to the athletes ' section to reflect both the track and field achievements ( Christie , Gunnell and Kriss Akabusi 's 400 metres hurdles bronze ) and winners away from the stadium — Chris Terry ( archery individual and team bronzes ) and gold-winning cyclist Chris Boardman and boxer Robin Reid ( bronze ) . |